The key facts
- Five people were killed and four wounded in the LNR over the past day, according to the region's head Leonid Pasechnik
- 11 municipalities came under fire; air defense, according to Pasechnik, shot down more than 100 aerial targets
- Strikes on energy infrastructure caused power, water and heating outages
Five killed and four injured over the past day
Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), said that five people were killed and four more wounded on the republic's territory over the past day. The figures are reported by Life.ru, citing the head of the region; a similar report was published by Gazeta.Ru, noting that Pasechnik posted it on his Telegram channel and expressed condolences to the relatives of the victims.
Where the attacks took place
According to Pasechnik, early in the morning a bus traveling on the Lysychansk — Luhansk route was attacked in the Slavyanoserbsk municipal district: preliminarily, one passenger was killed and a woman was injured. In the Bilovodsk district, a strike hit an apartment building — a man was killed, a woman was injured, and debris clearance is ongoing. On a highway in the Novoaidar district, two men were killed in an attack on a truck, while in Luhansk, near the agrarian university, a driver was killed after a drone struck a cargo vehicle. In addition, a man was wounded in the settlement of Nizhneye in the Pervomaysk city district, and in Lysychansk an elderly woman was injured in an attack on a residential building.
Power, water and heating outages
Strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in two municipalities led to electricity disruptions. According to Pasechnik, temporary outages have been introduced in almost all municipalities of the republic, which has also disrupted water and heating supplies; emergency crews are working to restore the supply of resources. Earlier, Life.ru reported that massive power outages occurred in Luhansk and other cities of the LNR on November 10 after a drone struck energy infrastructure, and authorities warned of the threat of repeated attacks that could complicate the restoration of electricity supply.
Scale over the past day and previous strikes
In total, over the past day, 11 municipalities came under fire, according to the head of the LNR. Air defense systems and mobile fire groups, in his words, destroyed more than 100 aerial targets over the republic's territory. The day before, on November 9, Pasechnik reported that drones attacked a sector of central Luhansk, near which there are a polyclinic, a school, a public transport stop and shops; at that time, according to preliminary data, no one was hurt, but apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged.
